# Forty Stories

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- Book: [Forty Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/forty-stories) ([Forty Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/forty-stories.md))
- Authors: [Anton Chekhov](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov), [Robert Payne](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-payne)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-375-1
- Pages: 384
- Published: 1991-03-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from...